Optediceros breviculum

Optediceros breviculum, common name the red mangrove snail, is a species of small operculate snail, a freshwater or marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Assimineidae.

Optediceros breviculum
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.168636 1 - Assiminea brevicula (Pfeiffer, 1854) - Assimineidae - Mollusc shell.
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Assimineidae
Genus:	Optediceros
Species:	O. breviculum
Binomial name
Optediceros breviculum (Pfeiffer, 1855)
Synonyms
Assiminea australis Thiele, 1927 (non Petterd, 1889) Assiminea brevicula (Pfeiffer, 1855) Assiminea miniata Martens, 1866 (junior synonym) Assiminea rubella Blanford, 1867 (junior synonym) Hydrocena brevicula Pfeiffer, 1855 (original combination) Ovassiminea brevicula (L. Pfeiffer, 1854)

Distribution

The distribution of Optediceros breviculum includes:

Distribution map of Optediceros breviculum.

• Bangladesh
• China and Hong Kong and Taiwan
• West Bengal in India
• Japan
• Malaysia
• Myanmar
• Philippines
• Singapore
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

External links

• Blanford, W.T. (1867). "Descriptions of some Indian and Burmese species of Assiminea". The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 3. 19 (114): 383. Retrieved 29 November 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• Fukuda H. & Ponder W.F. 2003. Australian freshwater assimineids, with a synopsis of the Recent genus-group taxa of the Assimineidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea). Journal of Natural History, 37: 1977-2032